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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power says that most households in Los Angeles use between 30-40 percent of water outdoors and in some neighborhoods located in zones with warmer temperatures or with homes on larger lots, households use as much as 70% of their water outdoors. And after a hot weekend, this weekend looks to be much cooler and wetter.
"Now is the time for customers to cut back on their water use and adhere to the city's prohibited uses of water. Our water supplies have been cut, and we must all get serious about using less water. It starts with cutting back on outdoor use - especially when the temperature is cool and rain is in the forecast," said Jim McDaniel, LADWP assistant general manager of water resources in a statement.
The city has had a prohibited water use ordinance since the last drought in the 1990s, but the enforcement was extremely lax. A new plan announced last week calls for "real enforcement" with penalties of the restrictions such as excessive yard watering, peak daylight watering, serving water to restaurant patrons who do not ask for it, and a favorite for pedestrians: watering driveways and sidewalks.
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Does the city plan on taking it's own advice? Hollywood Blvd is pressure washed every night.
Is it really necessary to do this? Or do they just enjoy watching drunk girls fall on the slippery concrete? The concrete watering seems to commence right around the time the bars close.
I have a neighbor who has his front lawn on an auto-sprinkler system that waters it 6 times in a day at 15 mins per cycle. I would love to see if this "enforcement" actually does something.
I wonder though, what are the limits?
Kristinster, it's illegal to wash a sidewalk, so I doubt it's the city doing it, however I'll look more into this, that plus Manny's question too.
Keep 'em coming.
Finally... When I moved to L.A. from Europe I was wondering all the sidewalks would be wet in the morning, when it hadn't rained for days... When I realized that people are just don't care and are not maintaining their sprinklers which wastes water in an area (in the fucking desert...)where there's a natural shortage of water.
It needs gas prices exceeding 4 dollars to make people realize that fuel efficient cars are necessary (still not caring about the environment, but your wallet) and so it needs high fines (or higher prices for water) to make people stop wasting water. It's like dealing with little children: You have to punish them to learn something.
About fucking time.
What about watering the streets? Can we report that too?
you can totes narc on your water-wasting neighbor via a DWP program called Drought Busters
we talked about it recently on LAist here: http://laist.com/2008/05/03/dont_be_a_water.php
great photo
People at 16717 Sweetaire Ave., Lake Los Angeles, CA 93535 are too lazy to sweet driveway and walkways and hose every day. Right now they have a water slide going for their kids. It is 1:00 p.m. and 105 degrees! He just washed 2 vehicles and 3 RV's. People at 16705 Sweetaire Ave. has their sprinkling system on auto water EVERY DAY for ONE HOUR from 11:30 am to 12:30 am!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. I'm turning them in, but will anyone do anything about it. They laugh at the laws and regulations!!